Silent Sting out of Queen's Plate, will get break

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – After his seventh-place finish in the $125,000 Plate Trial Stakes at Woodbine on June 9, Queenston Stakes winner Silent Sting is no longer under consideration for the $1 million Queen’s Plate on June 30. Silent Sting trailed the field throughout the Plate Trial and will now be getting a break on the farm, trainer Sid Attard said.

“He’s been going all winter and last year,” Attard said. “It looks like maybe he’s a bit tired, so we’re going to give him a break. He’s doing good. He’s okay.”

Silent Sting made four starts as a 2-year-old in 2017, recording two wins and two runner-up finishes. He capped the season with his first stakes win in the Kingarvie Stakes on Dec. 9. He spent the winter with Attard in Florida at Gulfstream Park and returned to Woodbine in the spring.

In his first start as a 3-year-old back at Woodbine, he recorded his second consecutive stakes victory in the seven-furlong Queenston Stakes on April 22 before his seventh-place finish in the Plate Trial.